Toys
Playing to Learn
Monday, August 2, 2021
Today is National Coloring Book Day, Take A Penny/Leave A Penny Day, and National Ice Cream Sandwich Day.
August is National Wellness Month, National Sandwich Month, National Golf Month, National Water Quality Month, Black Business Month, International Pirate Month, and National Crayon Collection Month
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: TOYS
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ON THIS DATE
- 1776 - Delegates to the Continental Congress begin signing the Declaration of Independence.
- 1790 - The first United States Census is conducted.
- 1923 - Vice PresidentVice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
- 1932 - The positron is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
- 1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
- 1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War
- 1754 - Architect and designer of Washington, DC, Pierre Charles L'Enfant
- 1834 - French sculptor and designer of the Statue of Liberty, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
- 1924 - Author James Baldwin
- 1939 - Director Wes Craven
- 1966 - Baseball pitcher Tim Wakefield
- 1970 - Actor, screenwriter, and director Kevin Smith
- Grades K-12 - Sesame Street - Rubber Duckie - LISTEN
- Grades K-12 - Sesame Street - Rubber Duckie with Daveed Diggs - LISTEN
- Grades K-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Toy Story - Toy Collection (8:02) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-12 - NHPBS Video - Spanish with Esmeralda - Learn the Spanish Words for Some Toys - VIEW
- Grades K-12 - National Toy Hall of Fame - READ and VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Timeless Toys - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl - Bizarre Spinning Toys (4:56) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - SciTech Now - Engineering Toys that Capture Energy from Play (7:12) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - SciTech Now - How Architects Use Toy Blocks for Modeling (5:34) - VIEW and DO
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NHPBS
- 7:30-8 am NHPBS - Wild Kratts - Komodo Dragon
- 8-8:30 am NHPBS - Hero Elementary - Turtle Beach / Shine A Light On Me
- 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Mary Leaky/I Am Alexander Hamilton
- 10-11:30 pm NHPBS - P.O.V. - Pier Kids
NH WORLD
- 8-9 am NH WORLD - Nature - Super Cats: Extreme Lives
- 9-10 am NH WORLD - Our Gorongosa
- 10-11:30 am - NH WORLD - Doc World - Road Runners
- 11:30 am -12 pm NH WORLD - POV Shorts - Water Warriors
- 12-1 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Making North America: Origins
- 1-2 pm NH WORLD - Life from Above - Moving Planet
- 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed The World - The Telescope
- 3-4 pm NH WORLD - Eyes on the Prize - Power! 1966-1968
- 4-5 pm NH WORLD - Eyes on the Prize - The Promised Land 1967-1968
- 7-8 pm NH WORLD - Spy in the Wild, A Nature Miniseries - The Tropics
- 8-9 pm NH WORLD - Spy in the Wild, A Nature Miniseries - The North
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